Florida Republicans Think They Can Trick People Into Supporting Their Wildly Restrictive Abortion Ban Because It’s Not as Bad as Texas’s

Strangely, reproductive rights advocates aren’t buying the whole “Hey, it’s better than Texas!” argument, and desperately hope others won’t fall for it. “If they drop a bill so extreme and so crazy that it dominates the news for months, when they drop a 15-week ban, it does not look as extreme,” Annie Filkowski, policy director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, told the Post. “It looks like a compromise.” Samantha Deans, associate medical director for Planned Parenthood of South, East, and North Florida, shared a horrifying story with the paper about an 11-year-old who’d been raped by a… Read Full Article